Instead of: pkg_postinst() { games_pkg_postinst elog "A Doom engine is required to play the wad" elog "but games-fps/doomsday doesn't count since it doesn't" elog "have the necessary features." echo ewarn "To play freedoom with Doom engines which do not support" ewarn "subdirectories, create symlinks by running the following:" ewarn "(Be careful of overwriting existing wads.)" ewarn ewarn " cd ${GAMES_DATADIR}/doom-data" ewarn " ln -sn freedoom/*.wad ." ewarn } Should be: pkg_postinst() { games_pkg_postinst elog "A Doom engine is required to play the wad" elog "but games-fps/doomsday doesn't count since it doesn't" elog "have the necessary features." echo ewarn "To play freedoom with Doom engines which do not support" ewarn "subdirectories, create symlinks by running the following:" ewarn "(Be careful of overwriting existing wads.)" ewarn ewarn " cd ${GAMES_DATADIR}/doom" ewarn " ln -sn ../doom-data/freedoom/*.wad ." ewarn } According to the documentation this is where most Doom engines look for the wads: On Windows, you should place Freedoom's data files (those ending with .wad) alongside the engine (eg, odamex.exe). On Unix-like systems, these data files should go in either /usr/share/games/doom or your home directory. If Freedoom comes packaged as part of your operating system distribution, it should already be installed into the proper location.
I don't get it. Tried to play Doomsday/freedoom. It works well. Just need to select the directory with *.wads at first start (/usr/share/doom-data, doomsday includes subdirectories). What are these symlinks for? The post-install instructions look incorrect indeed, but the proposed correction does not look correct either.
The documentation has the following instructions: On Windows, you should place Freedoom's data files (those ending with .wad) alongside the engine (eg, odamex.exe). On Unix-like systems, these data files should go in either /usr/share/games/doom or your home directory. If Freedoom comes packaged as part of your operating system distribution, it should already be installed into the proper location. The purpose of this is to guarantee that the WAD files are in a directory readable by the user -- it's easier to tell a non-tech user "place files here" rather than explain the nature of computer security permissions. The ebuild currently installs the WAD files into a place readable by the user, so this pkg_postinst message can be removed -- there's not need to instruct the user to create symlinks and specific game directories. The only thing that would be useful is to notify the user where the WAD files have been placed by the ebuild, and to tell them to point their engine there.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=74a1cdbf0fef8611cf0128ec66b2abc272c31247 commit 74a1cdbf0fef8611cf0128ec66b2abc272c31247 Author: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-05-28 14:31:41 +0000 Commit: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-05-28 14:32:48 +0000 games-fps/freedoom: bump version to 0.11.3 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/584486 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.67, Repoman-2.3.13 Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> games-fps/freedoom/Manifest | 2 ++ games-fps/freedoom/freedoom-0.11.3.ebuild | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
